Research Method Organization of Study

digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id literary criticism is a study of interpreting, analyzing and evaluating to formulate general principle of literary work. The history of New Criticism theory. It is one of the features in literary criticism. American New Criticism, which was active from the late 1930s to the late 1950s, also took on most of the ideas of literary experts Eliot and Richards, as well as those Empson. The movement had its roots in the American South, which had long been backward economically, but was then undergoing rapid modernisation Carter 26. Formalism, sometimes called New Criticism even though it has been around a long time, involves the careful analysis of a literary text’s craft. Ignoring any historical context, any biographical information about an author, any philosophical issues, or even any of a text’s political or moral message Gillespie 172. In short, new criticism and formalism is same object but it has different time appear. The New Critics asserted that everything off the page is irrelevant, dismissing psychology, philosophy, history, biography, and many other avenues of possible literary discussion inquiry Gillespie 173. New criticism concentrated on paradoxes, and ambivalence which could be established in the text. It clearly focused predominantly on poetry one writer, Mark Schorer, extented its main precepts to include analysis ofprose fiction Carter 27-28. In this point said that new critics in the large part focused on poetry. digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id In addition, New Criticism theory or formalism theory is a study which discipline of interpreting, analyzing and evaluating or focus on critical notice and it has clarify everything off the page in literary work.

2.1.2 Character

Character is an important element to build the story in literary work. To know the way of the story, the reader usually focuss into main character. According to Bennet and Royle, character is the life of literature. It has relationship with human intensely. It is because they are as object of human curiosity and fascination, affection, and dislike, admiration and condemnation. Moreover through the power of identification, through sympathy and antipathy, character can become part of how people conceive their selves, a part of who they are. Then, it can say that character are like ‘real’ people 60. Another description from Nurgiyantoro, characters are divided into some types. Based on its significance role in developing a story, characters are separated into major and minor characters. Major or main character refers to a character which appears in almost all or totally in the whole story. He or she is a character which is mostly told and always relates to other characters. Meanwhile, minor character is a character which appears only in some parts of the whole story and he or she is told less than the major character. Minor characters may exist just when they are having correlation with the major characters 176-177. From the previous description, characters in literary work especially novel there are some main characters. It consist into two features of main characters are